Digital Humanities People come to teach PoliSci Folk
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Polisci students and whoever else is interested can hear more about data science from people working at the Digital Humanities during a small Data Visualization Course.
Data Visualization Course
Nov 3 2025: Introduction to visualisation principles by Jonathan Westin and Matteo Tomasini
Recommended readings:
Edward R. Tufte 1969. “Improving Data Analysis in Political Science”. World Politics, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul., 1969), pp. 641-654 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/2009670 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2009670)
Vertesi, J. Theory-Laden Data Visualization, Drawing-As and Seeing-As in Sociology and in Data Science. Am Soc 56, 440–454 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-025-09658-2
Nov 4 2025: From unstructured data to visualisations, lead by David Alfter
Recommended readings:
Chs 2 and 17 in Jurafsky, D., & Martin, J. H. “Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition with language models (3rd ed., draft). Stanford University; University of Colorado at Boulder. https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ Wednesday, Nov 5 (13-16)
On Nov 5 2025, we can hear more on Visual data: from raw data to publication by Matteo Tomasini
On Nov 6 2025, Matteo Tomasini talks about “Bases of spatial visualisation”